SimpleSoleProject

I believe Tupac said that.  You might notice some small changes to the site.  Sometimes change is good, sometimes it is not, it is almost always hard though.  As I learn my way through basic web design, writing, and learning the ideas that work for a site, my site,  I find that what is true working with on SimpleSole is also true in my running.  You need to keep at it, even when it is tough.  You need to take a risk every now and again.  You need to make mistakes.  You need to learn.  You need to ask questions.  You need to be proud of the work you are doing. You need to try new things and keep improving. . .

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The Olympic running events start tomorrow.  Women’s 10k.  Tell your boss to lose some weight, watch it.  Check your local listings, I know where I will be at 5am Sunday during the women’s marathon. . .

Came across THIS LINK in Popular Mechanics.  Best animals of an activity (running) that only humans compete at (unless of course you consider evading capture/being consumed by a larger beast/consuming smaller beasts/simply surviving a relatively short and brutal life to be competition).

Anyways, I just hit two years on the site.  Time flies I suppose.  One of my goals is to get more reader feedback, though I must admit I enjoy your responses to me in person more than anything.  Thanks for reading.

Vote for the Lincoln Running Company now.  Email your friends.  Tweet it.  Smoke signals.  Morse Code.  Slap someone.  Messenger Pigeons.Whatever.

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One would think that as long as I have been in this sport, that the opportunities to experience new things would occur less and less often.  Well, I had a new experience today.

The Lincoln Track Club does a great job putting on local events, supporting the community, and really just being a great organization (among many) that are grassroots here in Lincoln.  Out of the race series that they put on, the Lincoln Mile is one of my favorites.  It is just completely different from anything else around.  Outside the high school and college kids, no one around here trains for a single mile.  It is all just guts, hard running, and fun.  Really, the damn race is over before you know it.  Yeah, it hurts for a few minutes, but whatevs. Add in a new course due to construction on Memorial Stadium this year and we were ready to roll.

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We just got through one of the hottest, most humid stretches of weather here in Lincoln in a long time.  Summers here are generally pretty crappy. Either humid on your morning runs or just plain hot during your evening runs.  But as I got done with a hilly 8 miler in the country on Friday and doused myself with some ice water (I almost feel bad wasting that kind of water), I noticed one of my favorite things of summer running:  When your sweat seems to be sweating.  You have that initial sheen on your skin, then beads of sweat on top of that.  Usually this condition is associated with soggy shoes, drippy shorts, and a really good run.  Love it.

Sometimes you come across something so face smashingly awesome, you get super-pumped up to the max, rip your shoes off and go sprinting down I-80 screaming out how you want people punch you as you run by and throw their track spikes in your path like some sick version of the gauntlet at the end of football camp. It is rare this occurs in running and when it is usually something that someone, somewhere had to create out of thin air.  In this case, that someone was Red Bull (so you already know it will be something ridiculous).  That somewhere is Germany, I think it’s Germany but I can’t read the subtitles and am too lazy to open Google Translate and copy/paste.  Red Bull + Germans= ?  So without further ado:

Maybe you want to take another 2.5 minutes and go back and watch that again and make sure it was real.

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